Laundry-clip



L. KIML.

LAUNDRY CLIP.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 17, I920. 1,396,639, Patented Nov. 8, 1921.

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I y 8 3 2 9 9 7 Z awvewtoz Lacid Kim] UNITED STATES LADA KIML, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

LAUNDRY-CLIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 8, 1921.

Application filed April 17, 1920. Serial No. 374,728.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LADA KnrL, a citizen of CZECHOSLOVAKIA, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of hi0, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Laundry-Clips, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to laundry clips, and has for its principal object to provide a clip which is of simple and inexpensive construction, and convenient for attachment to pieces of laundry.

Another object of this invention is to provide a clip of said character, upon which is an identification mark for showing the owner of garments washed at a public laundry.

lVith the above and other objects in view as will be readily understood, the invention will be hereinafter fully described as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and the novel features thereof will be distinctly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings similar characters of reference are used to designate corresponding parts.

Figure 1 is a front side view of a laundry clip constructed in accordance with my invention, the spring being in closed position,

Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same,

Fig. 3 is a bottom end view, and

Fig. 4 is a rear side view, the spring arms being in normal or open position.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a plate having at its upper end an eye 2 of less width than the plate, and formed integrally with the plate at the lower end thereof are a pair of oppositely extending arms 3 and 4, which are turned upwardly and inwardly to form hooks 5 and 6 respectively. A single piece of suitable spring wire, designated by 7, is provided with a central loop 8, the inner side 9 of which is pivotally connected to the eye 2 of the plate 1, and its free ends form diverging spring arms 10 and 11 terminating in outwardly extending and rounding ends 12 and 13 respectively. The spring arms 10 and 11 are normally spread apart a greater distance than the hooks 5 and 6, and are adapted to be forced toward each other by pressing upon the ends 12 and 13 thereof, until said arms will pass between the ends of the hooks 5 and 6 at 1 1 for being engaged thereby. A number or other identification mark is stamped upon the rear side of plate 1 as shown at 15, for distinguishing pieces of laundry.

In using this clip, the edge of a garment to be laundried is laid over the hooks 5 and 6 and plate 1, between the same and the spring arms 5 and 6, which are out of engagement with said books. The spring arms are forced together and between the ends of the hooks 5 and 6 at 14, thereby pressing the garment into the hooks, and upon releasing the spring arms, they will engage the garment with suflicient pressure to retain the clip upon the garment while being laundried. The garment may be hung to dry by attaching the loop 8 of the clip over a nail or by stringing a line therethrough.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim is:

1. A laundry clip comprising a plate, a wire, the wire being provided with a loop, the loop of the wire being pivoted to the plate, and the plate being provided with means for holding the free ends of the wire when the wire is inclined with relation to the plate, substantially as described.

2. A laundry clip comprising a plate, a wire, the wire being provided with a loop, the wire having its free ends extending from the loop thereby leaving an inner side of the loop, the inner side of the loop being pivoted to the plate, and the plate being provided with means for holding the free ends of the wire when the wire is inclined with relation to the plate, substantially as described.

3. A laundry clip comprising a plate, the plate having an eye at one end and hooks at the other end, a wire, the wire being formed with a loop and diverging arms, the loop having an inner side with relation to said arms, the inner side of the loop being pivotally connected to the eye of the plate, the loop having a space beyond said eye, and said arms being adapted to be engaged by said hooks, when the arms are inclined with relation to said plate, substantially as described.

4. A laundry clip comprising a plate, the plate having an upturned eye at one end and outwardly extending arms at the other, loop being pivotally connected to the eye the arms of the platebeing turned upwardly of the plate, and said arms being adapted and inwardly forming hooks, a Wire, the to be engaged by said hooks when the arms 10 wire being formed with a loop and divergare inclined with relation to said plate, sub- 5 ing arms, the 100p in a plane at a right anstantially as described. V gle to said eye having an inner side with In testimony whereof I affix my signature. relation to said arms, the inner side of the u a LADA KIML 

